Ya Ding
Ya Ding is a Chinese writer and translator.
Ya comes from a little village in North China and after his secondary studies he worked as a farmer thanks to Down to the Countryside Movement. After the Cultural Revolution, he created the first University of Beijing student revue and started to translate French authors.
Awards
- 1988: Prix Cazes for Le Sorgho rouge.
- 1988: Prix de l'Asie for Le Sorgho rouge
- 1988: Prix de la Découverte du Pen Club français
- 1989: Prix de l'Été for Les Héritiers des sept royaumes.
- 1991: Prix Contrepoint for ''Le Jeu de l'eau et du feu''